By Stanley Collymore
Quite seriously what on earth inexplicably conspires to cause
supposedly ordinary individuals and even collectively as
well large numbers of people to wantonly dessert all
apparent commonsensical notions of behaviour
that one would normally have expected them
to indulge in and cheerfully in their place
stupidly affix their devoted and clearly
committed loyalties to the manifestly
ostentatiously misleading but all the same alluring mast
of the generalized, massively harebrained, customarily
contrived, invariably cynically, and the methodically
manipulatively orchestrated by others measurably
self-centredly induced versions of what in their
delusional perceptions ought to establish and
consequently must suit their rather skewed
interpretation of what celebrity status is
all about and who accordingly should
either appreciatively be permitted to
join or else be mockingly debarred
from the ranks of this noticeably
artificial and unscientifically
based observation of theirs
as to who is or shouldn’t
be graded as a celebrity
status man or woman?
An entirely and unreservedly irrational loss of reason
that is itself abysmally inculcated and furthermore
intuitively followed up by a mindless and quite
noticeably an explicit and decidedly uncaring
unawareness of or else the irresponsible and
deliberate discarding of either all or most
of the tried and tested aspects that have
favourably, genuinely and enduringly
stood the rigorous test of time and
in the process of doing so confidently ensured that
the crucial and salutary interests of all mankind
would be and did substantially stand in good
stead. Or instead, or am I to wonder, ought
these commendable qualities to now be
needlessly abandoned and no longer
deemed as important assets much
less so be viewed as indispensable ones to the
conscientiously ongoing, apt and progressive
enhancement of human kind; while those
with unintelligibly and unwarrantedly
substantial influence constantly do
their level best to either profane
every thing that’s esoteric, or
else transparently resort to
circumscribing anything
that rewardingly could
be beneficial to even
the most obdurately
ill-informed mind!
© Stanley V. Collymore
29 March 2016.
Author’s Observations:
The word celebrity certainly has a long, very old and prestigious pedigree that goes back to the Latin word celebritas which was itself derived from an earlier Latin word celeber which was preceded by celebr whose meaning was “frequented or honoured.” And down the ages these words passed into old French as cebebrite, and specifically because of the extremely close and enduring linguistic links which existed and still do between the English language and French and characteristically cemented primarily as a direct result of the 1066 Norman invasion, conquest and settlement first of England and later the entirety of the British Isles the word we’re discussing here predictably made its way into the integrated Anglo-Saxon dialect as celebrity.
In contemporary English however the word celebrity commonly refers to a famous person and particularly so someone or persons involved in entertainment or sport and who are thus regarded as being known of by many people. But what are the true characteristics either of or correspondingly for the word famous? Interestingly enough no reference in that specific generalization is ever consciously made about these individuals’ intrinsic worth or lack of it as human beings, which I would have thought should have been fundamental characteristics that were genuinely requisite for anyone to possess that was considered whoever by as truly worthy of the definitions celebrity and famous.
Alas however that certainly isn’t the case even when celebrity and famous can both turn out at times to be a most awkward and even a hugely problematical double-edged sword which can be dreadfully troublesome for those who’re directly involved. For like the reverse side of a coin famous and celebrity have their flipsides as well with the words infamous and non-celebrity firmly embedded there and which can and do often sit uneasily and discomfitingly with the frequent and fatuous acclamation that is profusely and rather unwarrantedly given to those who were irresponsibly and brainlessly hailed as incontestably famous or eminent celebrity figures. And the name Jimmy Savile immediately comes to mind although he was by no means the only such person regrettably still alive or thankfully dead as he now is that appropriately and unquestionably falls into that flawed category, shall we charitably say, of universally applauded and dementedly lauded famous personalities and celebrities.
Even so the fundamental and still unresolved conundrum, although a number of conjectural hypotheses have at times been put forward for this ongoing state of affairs, is precisely why is it that so many people globally, but most particularly so in the west, are so evidently and intransigently mesmerized by as well as infernally and addictively hooked on this celebrity status cult obsession of significantly and more often than not exceedingly irrationally hero-worshipping other mortal human beings; and besides doing so unhesitatingly and without a solitary moment’s thought or any consideration whatsoever in relation to factoring into that puerile and unthinking equation of theirs any attentive regard for the intrinsic human worth or inestimable moral value system or otherwise of those whom they’ve inanely and most self-indulgently placed atop of the pedestals usually built on the shifting sands of populous and capricious public opinion that they and others have self-satisfyingly erected at the time to their inglorious but wannabe “immortalized” celebrity heroes?
And I ask myself: “How can anyone be so entirely lacking in self-worth that the only pride which they think they can realistically achieve and revel in is through the deluded notion of hero-worshipping someone else? Acknowledging that person’s capabilities is one thing but hero-worshipping them to the point of idiotic fixation? Sorry to disappoint but that doesn’t, never has or will it ever work for me! Not even in an inveterately class-obsessed and social climbing, cap-doffing Britain.”
By Stanley Collymore
You’re as common as muck even though by describing
you in this explicit way I’m doing a grave disservice
to a commodity that is much prized by the farming
community for the essentially productive effects
which traditionally it has always had on their
beneficial industry. You, however, are by no
means an asset to anybody, Michael Gove
and that includes yourself; and since the
discernible downside of muck is that it can despoil
and generally be a right bloody nuisance too in
the process it’s this explanation of the word
that is specifically relevant to you Michel
on this distinct occasion. So do yourself
a massive favour won’t you and clean
up your perfidious act, assuming of
course that you can, for it’s duly transparently
self-evident that your existing one not only
stinks but is also a vulgar affront to every
intelligent person across the extensive
length and breadth of this important
homeland we call Britain, as well
as to the entire world generally
and every one of its evidently
rational, deeply enlightened
and, most unquestionably
thoroughly responsible
inhabitants especially.
© Stanley V. Collymore
17 March 2016.
Author’s Remarks:
Prescient-minded and savvy individuals all know the type; brainless and utterly incapable in any natural sense of thinking for themselves, and who consequently slavishly – nice word for summing up these imbecilic morons - heavily rely on others to not only do their thinking for them but also dictate to them as well what they should believe and actually do, dim-wits in other words that habitually rely on their privileged existence not derived through any form of proven intellect or personal endeavour but invariably through an incestuous and characteristic British ingrained system of class indoctrination and the unwarranted toadying that stems from it. And you’re in pole position in every one of these illustrations Michael Gove, although by no means the solitary one as is abundantly demonstrated by the Zionist Nazis in your government, Cabinet, among your Tory parliamentary party members, their scumbag Labtory and Lib-Dem friends who also infect the House of Commons and one could go further and add the entire United Kingdom as their useless and sinister presence along with that of their brainless camp followers among the rest of us does discernibly attest.
Yet ironically Homo sapiens is a species that habitually and rather arrogantly culls harmless animals but unbelievably squeamishly recoils from doing the same with its own waste of time detrital human elements, and when the Germans, circa 1939-1945 sensibly and constructively sought to industriously do so, what did Britain somewhat asininely do? It stupidly went to war with them. Absolutely incredible! For in doing so it pointlessly in my opinion sacrificed many worthy lives, and not only British ones, and for what positive purpose? None that I can discern! And what a bloody awful mistake that senseless war turned out to be. And if you’re in doubt about that basically question any Palestinian who still manages to physically have a life of sorts and whose people, most barbarically deprived of their homeland, are now scattered to the four corners of the globe or else languishing in squalid refugee camps across the Middle East since 1948 what he or she thinks. But it’s not them we should empathize with but their Zionist genociders according to ignorant and cold-blooded assholes like Michael Gove. In my case let me unambiguously spell it out Michael Gove – IN YOUR BLOODY DREAMS!
Gan Stanley Collymore
Rydych chi'n mor gyffredin â dail er bod drwy ddisgrifio
chi fel hyn eglur fy mod yn gwneud anghymwynas
bedd i nwydd sy'n cael ei gwerthfawrogi yn fawr
gan y ffermio cymunedol ar gyfer yr effeithiau
y bôn gynhyrchiol yn draddodiadol mae bob
amser wedi'i chael ar eu diwydiant fuddiol. Rydych yn,
fodd bynnag, yn erbyn dim golygu yn gaffaeliad i unrhyw
un, Michael Gove ac mae hynny'n cynnwys chi eich
hun; a chan fod y Anfantais amlwg o faw yw y
gall difetha ac yn gyffredinol fod yn niwsans
gwaedlyd iawn hefyd yn y broses, mae'n yr esboniad
hwn o'r gair sy'n ymwneud yn benodol berthnasol i
chi Michel ar yr achlysur gwahanol. Felly wneud
eich hun Nid yw ffafr enfawr fyddwch chi ac
yn lân eich act perfidious, gan dybio o cwrs
y gallwch, er ei fod yn briodol yn dryloyw
hunan-amlwg bod eich un sy'n bodoli eisoes,
nid yn unig drewi ond mae hefyd yn sarhad
di-chwaeth i bobperson deallus ar draws
y helaeth hyd a lled o hyn yn bwysig
mamwlad rydym yn galw Prydain,
yn ogystal ynghylch y byd i gyd
yn gyffredinola phob un o'i
amlwg rhesymegol,
goleuedig ddwfn ac, yn fwyaf
ddiamheuoldrylwyr cyfrifol
trigolion yn enwedig.
© Stanley V. Collymore
Mawrth 17, 2016.
Sylwadau Awdur:
unigolion prescient â meddwl a savvy i gyd yn gwybod y math; brainless ac yn gwbl analluog mewn unrhyw ystyr naturiol o feddwl drostynt eu hunain, ac sy'n ganlyniad slafaidd - gair neis i grynhoi i fyny morons imbecilic hyn - drwm yn dibynnu ar bobl eraill i nid yn unig yn eu meddwl ar eu cyfer, ond hefyd yn pennu iddynt hwy yn ogystal beth y dylent gredu ac mewn gwirionedd yn ei wneud, dim-tennyn mewn geiriau eraill sy'n gyson yn dibynnu ar eu bodolaeth breintiedig nad ydynt yn deillio trwy unrhyw fath o deallusrwydd profedig neu ymdrech bersonol ond yn ddieithriad drwy system cynhenid Prydeinig losgachol a nodweddiadol o indoctrination dosbarth a'r toadying diangen sy'n deillio ohono. Ac rydych mewn sefyllfa polyn ym mhob un o'r lluniau hyn Michael Gove, er nad yw'r un unig fel y dangosir helaeth gan y Natsïaid Seionaidd yn eich llywodraeth, y Cabinet, ymhlith aelodau'r blaid seneddol eich Dorïaidd, eu scumbag Labtory a Rhyddfrydwyr ffrindiau Dem sydd hefyd yn heintio'r Tŷ'r Cyffredin a gallai un fynd ymhellach ac ychwanegwch y Deyrnas Unedig gyfan wrth eu presenoldeb ddiwerth ac yn sinistr, ynghyd â bod eu dilynwyr gwersyll brainless ymhlith y gweddill ohonom yn discernibly dystio.
Eto i gyd yn eironig Homo sapiens yn rhywogaeth sy'n gyson ac yn hytrach arrogantly difa anifeiliaid diniwed ond anhygoel squeamishly recoils rhag gwneud yr un peth â'i gwastraff ei hun o amser elfennau dynol mâl, a phan yr Almaenwyr, tua 1939-1945 geisir yn synhwyrol ac yn adeiladol i wneud hynny ddiwyd , beth oedd Prydain braidd asininely ei wneud? Mae'n wirion aeth i ryfel gyda hwy. Yn hollol anhygoel! Ar gyfer wrth wneud hynny mae'n ddibwrpas yn fy marn i aberthu llawer o fywydau teilwng, ac nid rhai Prydeinig yn unig, ac i ba bwrpas cadarnhaol? Dim y gallaf ddirnad! A beth camgymeriad ofnadwy gwaedlyd bod rhyfel disynnwyr drodd allan i fod. Ac os ydych chi mewn unrhyw amheuaeth am hynny yn y bôn holi unrhyw Palesteinaidd sydd yn dal i lwyddo i gael bywyd o ryw fath ac y mae eu pobl yn gorfforol, yn fwyaf barbarically hamddifadu o'u mamwlad, yn awr yn cael eu gwasgaru i bedwar ban y byd neu fel arall languishing mewn ffoaduriaid brwnt gwersylloedd ar draws y Dwyrain Canol er 1948 yr hyn y mae ef neu hi'n credu. Ond nid yw'n hwy dylem gydymdeimlo â ond mae eu genociders Seionaidd yn ôl assholes anwybodus a gwaed oer fel Michael Gove. Yn fy achos i, gadewch i mi yn ddiamwys sillafu allan Michael Gove - YN EICH BREUDDWYDION waedlyd!
Par Stanley Collymore
Vous étiez assez à l'homme audacieusement et plus
compétence "chaste loin" le bien évidemment
fille innocente qui était là et avec votre une
habileté consommée, la ténacité et dans
un plus manifestement électrisante et
totalement mode autorité convaincante
à la fois, érotiquement, à fond
pleasurably conjoint avec
détermination virile suprême absolument
gratifiante susciter l'envie sexuellement
mais déjà en sommeil et tout à fait
femme coïtale latent en moi.
Donc, mon profondément endetté,
durable, et inestimable merci
fermes pour ce
vous phénoménalement et
donc habilement tiré.
Causée moi de réaliser ravissement non seulement
orgasmically mais aussi et discernable dans
d'autres termes féminins inconnus, et dans
le processus de tout cela de façon
appréciable installé un marqueur
clair qui, commece qui me
concerne personnellement
vous êtes parfaitement libre et on
pouvait s'y attendre de la même façon,
Je dois dire, très gracieusement
intitulé et avec mon plein
coopération entièrement
occuper, ainsi que
explicitement à volonté
garder sans réserve
aller à chaque fois
vous favorable
déterminer que
vous aimeriez
reproduire ce
rendez-vous exalté
et retour.
© Stanley V. Collymore
16 Mars 2016.
de l'auteur Remarques:
Il est un long voyage de retour pour beaucoup d'entre vous vers le bas chemin de la mémoire, je sais et le souvenir même que ce qui se passait à l'époque était pas et même beaucoup encore est pas un excitant ou par un effort de l'imagination d'un de souvenir impressionnant.
Cela dit, pour d'autres ce fut une expérience extraordinaire et bouleversante dans votre vie respective et qui vous enduringly regardez en arrière avec de bons souvenirs et une grande nostalgie. Alors, comment est-ce vraiment pour vous?
Une expérience consummately libératrice que vous impressionne encore à ce jour, même si cette personne spéciale est plus dans votre vie ou d'une catastrophe à fond absolu que même fait maintenant vous méditez pourquoi diable avez-vous jamais pris la peine en premier lieu?
Il suffit de penser malicieusement à haute voix! Et tout à fait flagrante heureux comme le chat qui naughtily mais satisfyingly proverbialement léchait la crème. Et une dédicace, ce poème, à vous tous qui sont venus de l'âge et sur le point de fouler ce même chemin! Bonne chance!
Et comme ma mère a dit à mes sœurs et mon Gran m'a dit, si les choses ne vont bien ne pas oublier de toujours maintenir votre dignité! À moins bien sûr qu'ils vont si bien vous pensez, ce que l'enfer sanglant! La vie est sur profiter de soi-même et je vais tirer le meilleur parti de mes possibilité
By Stanley Collymore
You’re here, you declare! And enormously proud to be
a man you say; and furthermore for as long as you
live and are physically capable of doing so will
consistently flaunt that fact of life that you so
assiduously and obsessively cling on to in
every way that you can. And the reason?
Obvious can’t you see? It’s so that the
entire world and particularly every
desirable woman, from your personal perspective
that is, is left in no doubt that unquestionably
you are, and moreover if you have anything
to do with it, will constantly remain what
God in His infinite wisdom, and, most
positively where you are concerned,
always did unconditionally intend from the very
moment of your sanctified conception, your
delivery into this world and progressively
onwards into your adulthood that you
would not only emerge but also fully
develop into the best embodiment
of His incredibly proficient and
creative plan of meticulously fine tuning
you into the full personification of the
idyllic, white Master Race icon and
Zionist, Caucasian man! So well
done! That said however, even
sociopathic morons in flawed
western democracies are I
guess charitably entitled
to their far-fetched but
intensely embedded,
blinkered delusions,
wouldn’t you say?
© Stanley V. Collymore
15 March 2016.
Author’s Thoughts:
This poem was inspired by the recurrent idiotic actions of those in power on both sides of the Atlantic and who also equally and collectively together with their utterly likeminded kith and kin who’re firmly ensconced in their stolen, inhabited and completely controlled by them states arrogantly continue with their venomous political, economic, military and so-called cultural poisons to infect not only the countries they live in but also the rest of the world.
Obviously they can’t all be named here or in any article I were to later embark on as they are far too numerous to be so enumerated. But it’d be very remiss of me if I did not mention a few of them that I class as being some of the vilest among this already odious lot. There is no classification in terms of their pecking order as far s I concerned, since to me they’re all useless vermin and I’ve simply written down their names as they came into my head.
Here goes then: Alastair Campbell, Michael Howard, Ian Duncan Smith, Michael Gove, Liz Kendall, Simon Danczuk, Frank Field, the clowns at the MoD and those in the Home Office; Theresa May, Michael Fallon, Philip Hammond, Boris Johnson, Neil Kinnock, Hiliary Benn, Margaret Beckett; those who run Serco and G4S – nice one boys you give a new meaning and dimension to criminality and how to get away with it with impunity; the BBC in all its guises and specifically its Yid plutocrats; and the list goes on. I haven’t mentioned Tony Blair as it’d take the rest of my life to say what I really thought of him and as for David Cameron I’ve wilfully left him out. Why? Because I really do feel sorry for him; I’m not going soft or anything like that just that I don’t like seeing people being stabbed in the back as he currently is by his Yiddish, Zionist Nazi Gestapo and Waffen SS. Perhaps he’ll stop and reflect on how abominably Jeremy Corbyn has been treated and the part he played in this. I’m not holding my breath on that one though.
Across the Atlantic the list of scum is also enormous and ranges from the Supreme Court all the way down to the White House, Congress, Wall Street and what ludicrously passes for the media there. And that’s exactly why I’m rooting for Donald Trump to be the next President of the United States. No I’m NOT mad. And I do have my reasons. Firstly he’s not a politician and secondly he literally genuinely speaks his mind; So you know where you are with him and I like that in people whether their views chime with mine or not.
And I’ll give you an idea of what I mean. After Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood Speech several of my UK relatives quit Britain and either migrated to the US, Canada or else the Caribbean. My second sister and her engineer husband left the UK and moved to the US where their skills were very much in demand, and in the process taking their kindergarten age daughter, my niece, with them. Both my sister and brother-in-law have prospered in the US as have my Dad’s youngest sister and her husband who also quit Britain with their three sons but instead went to Canada. They’ve all kept up the family tradition of gaining a superb tertiary education and requisite skills, but it’s my niece I want to tell you about.
A graduate of Yale, Harvard and the University of the West Indies she periodically pops back to the UK to see family and friends and was recently here for a family celebration in Reading. British by birth but now a US citizen we got talking about politics generally and that in the US in particular and I asked her jokingly, knowing that most Blacks in the US are Democrats, if she was all set to put a woman in the White House, a clear reference to Hillary Clinton. She just laughed and tongue in cheek asked me when I was going to join the Tory Party. That out of the way she said that she, her friends and everyone she knew would be voting for Donald Trump.
Being the Devil’s advocate that I can be and like being at times I said to her all the things that the so-called mainstream media have been saying about Donald Trump and how inimical his presidency would be for Black people, as if they bloody well cared. My lovely and adorable niece then turned to me and used some of my own words from the past to make her relevant point. They centred on the fact that I had said to her and other family members that as long as I lived I would never publicly criticize the British Daily Mail, citing the fact that this was supposedly a racist and rightwing newspaper with likeminded readers who hated us Blacks, yet it was the only paper that conscionably and honourably went out on a limb, doing everything it could to get justice for Stephen Lawrence and put his racist killers behind bars, when the other so-called liberal media, pretending that they cared, were in cahoots with the police and others who shielded Stephen’s killers.
The Daily Mail didn’t have to do that but I know that my family, my friends and those I respect were indeed grateful to the Daily Mail for what it did and always will be. Then as she looked me firmly in the eyes my niece said these words: “Donald Trump is our Daily Mail!” I knew what she meant and gave my niece a huge hug and a peck on the cheek, profoundly assured that she was very much a chip off the familial block. And to you Donald Trump, I know you read my work as you’ve tweeted some stuff to me previously, I shall personally, as will my family in the US and the Caribbean Diaspora there, do everything to ensure that you are the next President of the United States. But don’t invite me to the White House if you’ve a mind to unless and until you first thoroughly hygienically fumigate it it of all the filth that has passed through that place!
By Stanley Collymore
I didn’t ask to be born and don’t remember being asked
my opinion as to whether or not I really wanted to be
here; but I am! And having arrived and with this
earthly dwelling, how long for is still unclear,
involuntarily my home, I’ve none the less
done everything which was required of
me and rather factually, even if I do
say so myself, a darn sight more
than many who’ve positively
ended up much better off
economically than me!
Now those aren’t emotions from a heart that’s eaten
up by anger, bitterness or callous jealousy, just a
natural concern that in this climate of severe
belt-tightening and relentless austerity it’s
usually conscientious and hardworking
persons like me who’re left to carry
the can while suffering the harsh
consequences of unbecoming poverty, which
certainly can’t be right in a society whose
government and our elected MPs while
not practising what they preach yet
talk incessantly of us being in it
together and falsely insinuate
it’s all about fairness and
their warped notion of
alleged impartiality
and the equality
of opportunity.
© Stanley V. Collymore
12 March 2016
Author’s Thoughts:
The good and hardworking people of Reading Berkshire have been hit with swingeing austerity cuts that will affect their entire community and these are undoubtedly very perverse and unnecessary penalties that will affect some of the most vulnerable people in this extraordinarily outstanding cosmopolitan Berkshire community and not least so those with disabilities who have been marshalling their forces to protest against these Tory Nazi calamities being callously imposed on them.
Of course they aren’t the only ones across the United Kingdom who these exceedingly privileged Tory Gestapo headed by the ruthlessly ambitious George Osborne and, as he enthusiastically aspires to being and Boris Johnson permitting, the succeeding Fuehrer to David Cameron of the Fourth Reich except that this time it isn’t located in Germany but instead is very much implanted within Britain, have adversely and rather uncaringly affected in this way, and even a cursory check of what is going on will clearly show that it’s the less well off conjoined with the evidently disadvantaged and not the well heeled, who continue to do rather nicely thank you, that are being concertedly targeted by these incompetently privileged, unashamedly self-serving, thoroughly narcissistic, graspingly hubristic and discernibly egocentric detrital elements of humanity.
And how do they manage this? Quite easily as it happens, by playing on the fabricated and wilfully induced fears instigated by them and which they ensure continue to beset significant numbers of the brain-dead and easily manipulated oiks within our societies. People, who invariably can’t think for themselves, jump on any bandwagon that rather disingenuously and outright lying they’re told by these same privileged prats is in their best interests. And principally among their targets and victims are migrants and refugees who are on their way to Britain, these British numbskulls are told, to scrounge off the UK and take their local jobs. Never mind that it would be contradictory to do two completely opposite things at the same time but when you’re devoid of basic commonsense you’ll believe anything and even overlook in the process what has caused the refugee and migrant crises in the first place.
The utterly heart-rending tragedy being that ordinary decent, enormously hardworking and deserving people across the length and breadth of Britain are being sucked into this quagmire of deception when they really shouldn’t be as it has absolutely nothing to do with them and is not of their making or choosing. Meanwhile, the well-heeled continue to be exempt from these swingeing austerity measures. An utterly maddening situation being, and as I perceive it, is that if the imbecilic camp followers and supporters of these Tory Nazis and their accomplices were the only ones being affected I wouldn’t care one jot as they’re principally to blame as well; but they clearly aren’t thus leaving the decent and praiseworthy residents of Reading and others like them across the United Kingdom to bear the full brunt of these evil travesties being inflicted on them. And how sickening that every Tory MP within Berkshire and where Reading is located fervently voted for these debilitating cuts to be introduced against the most vulnerable in the UK while it was the Labour MP who did the honourable thing and voted against them.
By Stanley Collymore
The uneasy pain of divorce
is often mitigated by the
great relief of knowing
that you’ve managed
to escape the bad
decision of
marriage.
© Stanley V. Collymore
7 August 2001.
Author’s Thoughts:
Written on the date stated this poem: “The pain of divorce” is dedicated to Kate of Surrey who recently wrote and I quote:
“According to a survey, we are supposed to be at our happiest at 39, having a great job, home and soul mate. At 39 I was going through a divorce from my “soul mate” after finding out he was having an affair; was in a job I hated and was living in a rented house. Now, several years later, I am much happier, with a man who loves me, a job that challenges me and my own house. Happiness cannot be given an age - happiness is found when it is found!”
Well said Kate!
By Stanley Collymore
Thanks for giving birth to me; and if perchance that
wasn’t what actually happened and consequently,
as I see it, regrettably for me you couldn’t have
attained the personal and deserved status of
being my biological mother thanks all the
same for what indisputably you cleverly,
diligently, efficiently and altruistically
assumed, scrupulously embarked on
and totally achieved, in what were
perceptibly specific circumstances, a committedly
decided upon remit of being the next best thing
to actually conceiving me. And doing so in a
resolute manner that could only have been
so comprehensively, consummately and
constructively undertaken by someone
who not only gamely but also quite
deservingly and enduringly falls
into that exclusively illustrious
category of being absolutely
the most sincerely commendable parent
and mother that any child, and most
notably someone like me, could
expectantly have aspired to
having and, what’s more
fortunately and most
gratifyingly in the
process as well
then managed
to procure!
© Stanley V. Collymore
3 March 2016.
Author’s Remarks:
This poem: “The incomparable Lady I dearly love and appreciatively and proudly call Mum”, while specifically in enthusiastic and unembarrassed recognition of, loving dedication to and an enduring tribute to my birth mother Louise without whom and in the otherwise absence of her rapturous, dedicatedly involved, reciprocally affectionate, energetically emotional and intensely physical, I’ve been told, union with my biological father I would definitely not have been here, but most thankfully from me for their incisive sagacity most demonstrably complimented too in them lovingly and rather touchingly getting together with one another and unquestionably doing the necessary business with each other - if you get my inferred meaning and where exactly I’m coming from – I am, and forthrightly taking into total consideration all their discernibly and beyond doubt sterling work, most delighted – well you would expect me to say that wouldn’t you?(smile) - to emphatically announce that their enterprise wasn’t in vain and I’m very much present.
However, this poetic dedication is likewise with the same unencumbered love and unswerving appreciation bountifully bestowed as well on all the female members of my fantastically warm, hugely diverse and perceptibly extended biological family who either individually, collectively but always in their own inimitable and, for me, welcoming ways from childhood well into my adulthood and ongoingly so in several cases continue to constructively and positively “mother” me. Thank you all for what you’ve done in the past and still encouragingly carry on doing.
Finally, to those of you who’ve not been as fortunate as I’ve certainly been or who sadly have never known what a mother’s love is, my deepest sympathies are with you and particularly on this upcoming Mother’s Day. But if it so happens you’ve subsequently become a mother, I do sincerely hope that you’ll do everything in your power to let those whom you’ve brought into this world experience not simply what you’ve missed out on but likewise positively engender in them the true enjoyment of parenthood, and do so uniformly from the prospective of both a mother and also a father’s love.
By Stanley Collymore
It would be nice to think, truly believe and honestly
say that all females who do become pregnant, in
whatever way, or even acquired the status of
adopted parents and consequently in either
process de facto became female parents,
then as a result of them managing to do
so they somehow essentially and also
unimpeachably are moreover in this
noticeably subjective assumption
by those who adopt this point of view must
for that reason alone and everlastingly be
guaranteed in those said circumstances
regardless of how seemingly strange
or ludicrously contradictory such
a presumption actually is or in
the end turns out to be must
none the less duplicitously,
disingenuously and more
often than not brazenly
and wrong-headedly
in this discernibly
gloomy process
as mothers too.
Absurdly, and certainly dishonestly so, ascribing
to all of them, and irrespective of either who or
what they are, the laudable status of mother
that substantial numbers of you out there
publicly take to erroneously and even
categorically in your self-contrived
state of reverent and unshakable
delusions contend is the case;
injudiciously making these
women indisputably mothers basically because
they either biologically or by virtue of some
noticeably twisted and utterly self-serving
undertaking of theirs, on top of what in
their narcissistically engineered and
propelled obsession irresponsibly
conjoined with their distinctly
inadequate or prominently
non-existent parenting skills all the same
cause these women with their intensely
deep-rooted illusions to incorrigibly
suppose that their egotistical and
self-centred longings are rightly
and commensurately together
with other manifest failings
of theirs quite satisfactory
in themselves to making
them complete women;
and even inexplicably
iconic and somewhat
unnecessary to say
proper mothers in
every likely way.
So why don’t you prudently join forces with those
who perceptively see motherhood as much more
than just acquiring children for purposes only
the lines of beings to be proudly paraded as
prized assets of yours; or to satisfy your
demented and compulsive longing to
unconvincingly prove that you’re
what you’d like the rest of us to
unwisely believe you to be what clearly you’re
not, but think you are; or as the prospective
recipients of your ill-gotten gains when,
regrettably for you, you must shuffle
off your mortal coils from this life,
and instead look upon them all as
what in effect they certainly are:
particularized human beings in
their own right who could, if
genuinely and intelligently
permitted to be, can with
relative ease become a
tangible credit to you
as a mother specially
or in alliance with
someone else, as
laudable parents
more generally?
© Stanley V. Collymore
29 February 2016.
Author’s Remarks:
With the upcoming Mother’s Day remembrance and celebration festivities due in the United Kingdom on March 3, 2016 I’d very much like to add my own contribution to this particularly special day itself, as well as all the appropriate and fitting celebrations scheduled individually by various offspring or collectively by families up and down the country to commemorate the occasion. And I do this not because I feel obligated to follow suit; oh no, but because I have a plethora of exceedingly good reasons why I must. To begin with my own upbringing was a truly fantastic one in every conceivable way and not only as a direct result of my biological mother’s sterling efforts but also those as well of the several voluntarily involved, willing, incredibly superb, positive and iconic mothers that I additionally and welcomingly had. The vast majority of them my close blood relatives!
For example, both my biological grandmothers; great-aunts, and in this regard particularly my great-aunt Millie, my several biological aunts on my mother and father’s side of my family, and even their close female friends who all took their turn or else collectively mothered me. Yes, I was showered in love but by no stretch of anyone’s fertile imagination was I witlessly pampered or spoilt in any way, and during the altruistic and evidently pleasurable tasks and that these incredibly blessed with foresight and mountains of love ladies allotted themselves in relation to myself they not only became my role models but my enduring mentors too on effectively everything pertaining to life generally from a thoroughly objective and highly informative female perspective as well as encouragingly ensuring in the process that I was equally cognizant of the “evils” that could and invariably did at times emanate too from woman kind. No special treatment afforded to me in either of these regards since they were similarly meticulous, I knew, in their education of me as they were in regards of their own biological children whether they were older or younger than myself.
So to all of them, those who’re still happily for me in this earthly life that we mutually share as well as those who sadly but inevitably have departed it, a truly heart-warming and the biggest thank you not only on this upcoming “Mother’s Day” but as I’ve routinely done in the past relative to being the fortunate and blessed recipient of you love, good wishes and general looking out for me and my individual interests, guided by you astute understanding of life conjoined with your brilliant application of its most positive aspects; again thank you all from the bottom of my heart.
I alluded earlier to the negative aspects associated with motherhood and as I’ve enumerated the most disturbing of these in my poem: “Being a female isn’t in itself the only qualification to be a mother!” I shan’t embark on repeating myself and will instead leave you to judiciously apply your commonsense, realize and appropriately address that specific matter in as conscionable a fashion as you’re either capable of or actually want to. Meanwhile to all of you who’ve been as truly blessed as I’ve been and likewise so to all those mothers: biological, adopted or fostered, who’ve industriously and lovingly worked throughout their raising of you to make you into the treasured and valuable person that you are emotionally and in every other positive sense, have a truly worthwhile and deserving Mother’s Day; and God Bless!
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